This week's trip

To Birmingham and we head for this tomorrow at the NEC, the UK's biggest Quilt Show.Not quite up to the standard of Houston I expect but it will be big enough.
I have had a very unusual bout of motorway-itis exacerbated by the ten pile ups I heard about on Monday between here and there.It's August and silly season on the roads.
To this end we will travel in the Centurion Tank not the Bean Can and it will probably take us twice as long and use three times the fuel.
There is no vehicle more designed for discomfort than a Land Rover, It rattles and shakes and the air conditioning is a joke, you slide a knob and a hole opens up in the dashboard displaying a clear view of  the road ahead of you.However you do feel safe and if there are queues of traffic, that's fine. we'll just head off across the fields.
The bookhound will deposit me and go off bookhounding while I wander around this paradise of quilts, get some inspiration for where my stitching goes next, add to my fabric stash because, like most quilters, I just don't have enough and of course take a few photos.
In fact I know exactly where my stitching is going next and it's well and truly off the beaten track with Alicia Merrett and a day course at Cowslip Workshops in September.